evening. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 9th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. we ll dive right into the house investigation into the january 6th capitol attack, which kicks off tonight in primetime. an aide tells nbc news the committee will present evidence never shown before which shows president donald trump at the center of a coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 election. the aide says tonight s testimony will serve as sort of an opening statement, and that the information we hear could go beyond the testimony we hear from live witnesses. as we ve reported, this evening s witnesses include a filmmaker who is embedded with the far right group, the proud boys, and a capitol police officer who was injured in the attack. the new york times reports the committee will also play video excerpts of the testimony from j
yeah. you know, mike barnicle, ed brings up a great point. donald trump has done all this in the open. this isn t like watergate. he s done all of it in the open. six, nine months before the election, he started whining about a rigged election before the first person voted. it s what he did after ted cruz beat him in the iowa caucus in 2016. he ran around screeching and whining about a rigged election. we heard the call. americans have heard the call. he calls the secretary of state of georgia and says, rig the election for me. how many votes am i behind? you can find one more vote than i m behind. you do that for me. right before the election when he was way down in the polls, he was telling his attorney general to arrest his political opponent and his political opponent s family. again, all of this out in the open, unlike watergate.
it is something that the media doesn t talk about that much. if you look at the numbers of illegal immigrant crossings over the past year or two, it just goes straight up. it spikes straight up. and i m just curious, that obviously is a great concern to millions and millions of americans. democrats in washington don t like to talk about it. democrats on twitter don t like to talk about it. so they just pretend it s not there and that it doesn t upset americans. but crime, these illegal crossings at the border, i mean, it s not like donald trump, who made up stuff when he came in in 2016, illegal border crossings were at a 50-year low after eight years of barack obama and joe biden. this is real. numbers are spiking. more people keep coming. joe biden wants to get rid of a rule that provides some relief for border agents. but why is the white house so
air travel. you had to take your shoes off. you had to go through four grader screenings. i mean, everybody remembers after 9/11. you would get checked going into the airport. you d get checked going through tsa. you would get checked at the gate. like, you had to get patted down. you re still getting patted down. liquids mika and i just traveled. liquids taken out. even, what, 21 years later, of our bags in one airport and thrown out, separated. they checked them. i mean, they have so hyperregulated air travel to stop another 9/11. guess what? it s worked. i guess what steve scalise is telling us is he is totally fine with the hyperregulation of guns. if his model is 9/11, progressives would say, bring it on. too much for me. hey, why don t we just do universal background checks that 90% of americans support?
certainly, polling suggests the large percentage of americans are not with them on this. now it s a question of what can happen in the senate. certainly, the house passed a series of bills last night, six in total, with some sweeping restrictions. those, of course, none of them will become law. but there are efforts there in the senate where they think some things can get done. talks stalled a little bit. there is some optimism, both sides, that eventually this will get done. likely not this week, probably spill into next. there is that ticking clock. the longer this drags on, momentum will fade. before you know it, it ll be the july 4th campaign for congress, then it is campaign season. there is urgency to get something done. they believe it will. aides in it process told me last night it is focused largely on small measures, expanding background checks, red flags. better than nothing, mika, but incremental. that s the question. what is this that they re going to get done after two